This Holiday Season, Welcome to 'the Banquet!'

Welcome to The Banquet, an MCOC holiday event!

Earn points toward Solo and Alliance Banquet Events by using units to send select consumables to alliance members and friends or, by purchasing and/or opening Banquet and Greater Banquet Crystals! Purchase Banquet and Greater Banquet Crystals in the Crystal vault, collect them from the Holiday Calendar and earn them in the Accolades Solo Event!

Starts: 12/20/2022 @ 18:00 UTC

End: 01/03/2023 @ 18:00 UTC

Requirements

Accounts must meet the following requirements to be eligible to participate in the Banquet event.

Conqueror Progression AND has reached level 40
AND Joined before Nov 21 2022

To contribute to, and earn rewards for, the Alliance Event:

Summoners must be in the Alliance for 14 days

**Please allow up to a week after the conclusion of the Banquet event for rewards to distribute. This time will be used to find, ban and remove rewards from cheaters on the leaderboards.

Introducing Banquet and Greater Banquet Crystals!

Banquet Crystals cost 15 Units each and contain a chance at:

Gold
T1 Alpha Catalyst
T4 Basic Catalyst Fragments
3- and 4-Star Signature Stone Crystals
3- and 4-Star Awakening Gems
3-, 4- and 5-Star Hero Crystal Shards

Greater Banquet Crystals cost 300 Units each and contain THREE items.

GUARANTEED 100K+ GOLD, TIER 5/6 CLASS ISO-8 and a chance at:

5- and 6-Star Kang
5- and 6-Star Thanos
5- and 6-Star Weapon X
5- and 6-Star Jessica Jones
6-Star Sig Stones (+5)
6-Star Sig Stone Crystals
5- and 6-Star Hero Crystal Shards
Cavalier Crystals
Nexus Cavalier Crystal
6-Star Featured Hero Crystal
Nexus 6-Star Hero Crystal
6-Star Awakening Gem Crystal
6-Star Awakening Gem
T4 Class Cat Crystals
T2 Alpha and T5 Basic Catalyst
T5 Class Cat Fragments
T3 Alpha Cat Fragments
T3 Alpha Catalyst
T6 Basic Cat Fragments
T6 Basic Catalyst
T6 Class Cat Fragments
Additional Gold
Additional T6 ISO-8
Scrap

Acquiring Points

You can send, and receive points for sending, the following items!

*NOTE* We are aware of a bug with gifting Boosts where the icons are not properly displayed; the info button will still provide accurate information. We thought it best to include the boosts despite this bug instead of removing them from the event entirely. Additionally, they will display under the ITEMS tab, not the BOOSTS tab.

*Note* As previously announced, Banquet and Greater Banquet Crystals cannot be gifted, they are for your account only.

Solo Event

Alliance Event

Please be aware of the minimum contribution required for each alliance member to collect Milestone Rewards.

Accolades

Summoners will receive a Gifting Badge and 10 Accolade Cards for nominations via an in-game message at the beginning of the event, and then one additional card per day via the Accolades Calendar.

Nominate your alliance members in a number of different categories
Earn 50 points in the Accolades Solo Event each time you nominate an alliance member
Receive five nominations in a given category to earn a Profile Picture
Receive fifteen nominations in a given category to earn a Title for your profile

Accolades Calendar

Accolades Solo Event

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Jefechuta

T2 Alpha and T5 basic crystals, instead of T5 alpha catalyst I suppose? 🫣
Also, why we need 5* shards in greater banquet crystals? 😫

They give ISO, not gonna complain hahaha

Squirrelguy

A lot of tables, and I know I'll probably get far lower than I would like in all the rewards since I don't pay, but I'm still looking forward to it!

Rohit_316

We can't gift UC gold crystals ?

Yodabolt21

This event looks to be even worse than the previous gifting event. This is going to push a ton of players away from the game.

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13579rebel_

Alliance nominations sound fun

TheLightBringer

I suck at math guys, but can someone please tell me if 6k units should be enough to reach the 6* awakening gem in solo event?

FGCTonyIRL

Not bad. All this looks promising, but something's missing.

As an avid collector of Champions even at it lowest rarity, where's 4* Kang and 4* Thanos? Are they going to make it to the basic pool like 4* Vision? 👀

Jefechuta

I suck at math guys, but can someone please tell me if 6k units should be enough to reach the 6* awakening gem in solo event?

It is, you get 4000 points with each greater gifting you buy

Adevati

I play a lot of alts because I enjoy doing so. It was nice that playing those alts could boost my main once a year. I was bummed gifting was being removed, but understand and accept the reasoning. I was mostly bummed because I figured I’d have to throw all these alts in the trash since they won’t be worth it anymore.

However, seeing these rewards and knowing there are some goodies in store for my alts, I’m excited to be able to pick out 1 or 2 lucky RNG accounts to continue playing when my main hits content walls.

This is a great sendoff to the traditional gifting event and, imo, a way better event than before.

Thanks Kabam for not pulling the plug on us alt grinders.

Adevati

This event looks to be even worse than the previous gifting event. This is going to push a ton of players away from the game.

What is your reasoning? This looks like the best one yet by a long shot. Better rewards all-around and the nomination alliance thing is a really clever and fun idea.

Eb0ny-O-M4w

I mean, can't say I'm surprised since I've came to accept that this is the behaviour you went along with. I'm just disappointed

TyEdge

Can a mod confirm that the alliance event points and the solo points are the same? In other words, a banquet crystal purchased and opened counts for a total of 4,000 in each event?

acteylene

Are we able to gift consumables to accounts outside our alliance, or is it limited to other alliance members? It certainly sounds like it is only within the alliance from the 1st paragraph, but kinda hoping that is not actually the case.

GroundedWisdom

I mean, can't say I'm surprised since I've came to accept that this is the behaviour you went along with. I'm just disappointed

Happy Holidays!

GroundedWisdom

Just thought it needed some positivity. XD

GroundedWisdom

Looks cool. I think the Alliance Nominations are an interesting concept.

Yodabolt21

This event looks to be even worse than the previous gifting event. This is going to push a ton of players away from the game.
What is your reasoning? This looks like the best one yet by a long shot. Better rewards all-around and the nomination alliance thing is a really clever and fun idea.

Multiple reasons.

1. I have always defended Kabam and leaning towards spenders win. I get that it’s a business and they have to make money. This is too much. Anyone that looks at these rewards and feel excited need serious help. Unless you drop $10k plus, you’re not getting the top rewards. I hope you all realize this.
2. Battlegrounds is the best game mode right now. I spend a little, sure, but I still feel that I have a fighting chance to get into the top 100 or so. These rewards are going to make it nearly impossible for those of us that are still growing our rosters in hopes of competing without spending an INSANE amount of money. These rewards take all the chance of the majority of players being able to compete. If it was still skill matters like it does now, fine. The next 3 seasons of battlegrounds will be dominated by the spenders until everyone else can start to catch up a bit. But by then it won’t matter much because a lot of players will just quit.
3. This event does seem fun if you are realistic. Even so, the rewards themselves from the crystals aren’t game breaking. My issue lies with the ranked rewards. The top 30 spenders get 13 nexus crystals, 5 awakening gems, 3 max sig 6*, 6 5*+ relics and 7 r4+ champs. That’s not even counting th me crystal or alliance rewards. How does this balance the game in any way, shape or form?

Call me a whiner or whatever, but I love battlegrounds and this event ruins the next chunk of seasons, unless you plan to spend an insane amount. I could go on, but what is the point.

Bocksarox

For the solo event, is the 6* awakening gem milestone at 80,000 points a generic gem? It doesn't say "crystal" so I'm assuming that it is.

Furrymoosen

I suck at math guys, but can someone please tell me if 6k units should be enough to reach the 6* awakening gem in solo event?

You will need at least 6700 units to finish the milestones, so 6k should get you to the AG. You need to purchase 24 crystals (7200 units) plus open the 4 from the rewards. You’ll get another 500 units from the rewards to bring you to 7200 and the 4 crystals from the rewards will be enough points to finish it off. This math is not including anything from alliance rewards, which will help bring the units needed down.

Edit: if you’re in an involved alliance, 5850 units plus what you earn will be enough to get everything.

Eb0ny-O-M4w

I mean, can't say I'm surprised since I've came to accept that this is the behaviour you went along with. I'm just disappointed
Happy Holidays!

Yes.

Eb0ny-O-M4w

I'm glad I didn't save units during Cyber Weekend for this event! Imagine getting scrap in those crystals...🤮🤮

Yeah, scrap honestly shouldn't be in those crystals.

Imagine buying 10k+ of these crystals like some players usually do, and having them in your inventory just to open them a few every now and then. Then you pull scrap, a useless thats gonna be completely useless by that time.

This is basically a resource that you either get it now or they use will expire

Noob_Master69

If my calculations are correct (they may very well not be): You'll need to fork up 5250 of your own units on greater banquet crystals to get all the solo event rewards. Assuming that you manage to get all other Banquet crystals mentioned in this post (you get 100o points for opening them) and you use every unit you get to buy more banquet crystals.

Again this might be wrong just a quick calc but thould give the right idea for how much you'll need to spend to get all solo rewards

Wicket329

This event looks to be even worse than the previous gifting event. This is going to push a ton of players away from the game.
What is your reasoning? This looks like the best one yet by a long shot. Better rewards all-around and the nomination alliance thing is a really clever and fun idea.
Multiple reasons.

1. I have always defended Kabam and leaning towards spenders win. I get that it’s a business and they have to make money. This is too much. Anyone that looks at these rewards and feel excited need serious help. Unless you drop $10k plus, you’re not getting the top rewards. I hope you all realize this.
2. Battlegrounds is the best game mode right now. I spend a little, sure, but I still feel that I have a fighting chance to get into the top 100 or so. These rewards are going to make it nearly impossible for those of us that are still growing our rosters in hopes of competing without spending an INSANE amount of money. These rewards take all the chance of the majority of players being able to compete. If it was still skill matters like it does now, fine. The next 3 seasons of battlegrounds will be dominated by the spenders until everyone else can start to catch up a bit. But by then it won’t matter much because a lot of players will just quit.
3. This event does seem fun if you are realistic. Even so, the rewards themselves from the crystals aren’t game breaking. My issue lies with the ranked rewards. The top 30 spenders get 13 nexus crystals, 5 awakening gems, 3 max sig 6*, 6 5*+ relics and 7 r4+ champs. That’s not even counting th me crystal or alliance rewards. How does this balance the game in any way, shape or form?

Call me a whiner or whatever, but I love battlegrounds and this event ruins the next chunk of seasons, unless you plan to spend an insane amount. I could go on, but what is the point.

I totally get where you’re coming from with this, but there’s one point of analysis that I think you leave out.

The kind of spender who is going to get those top of the line ranked rewards is the kind of spender who already has a full r4 roster. And if they already have that kind of roster and aren’t competitive in Battlegrounds (either due to lack of desire or time or skill or whatever), then these additional resources on top won’t change that for them.

The biggest spenders, however, will have one or more r5 6* champs after this. That’s definitely a BGs advantage that they did not have yet. I don’t think it’ll make an overwhelming difference (because you can always ban those champs if they’re especially scary), but it’s possible that it will. I can’t deny that possibility. I just don’t find it terribly likely that it will be a major pain point for Battlegrounds going forward.

Standardman1989

Where are the consumables in the post? The potion part? If this is the case, it’s a shame that there are no elder mark

Incursion care I never go up to 25 rooms so not interesting

Daddrieda

I thought we was gonna stop with gifting and only gift ourselves or did I totally misread it?

TyEdge

Can a mod confirm that the alliance event points and the solo points are the same? In other words, a banquet crystal purchased and opened counts for a total of 4,000 in each event?

No, seriously. Can we get a confirmation that we get the same 3000 and 1000 points in the alliance event for buying and opening a banquet crystal @Kabam Miike @“Kabam Jax”

Still befuddled at the disagree click. Gee I wonder who’d do that.

Jefechuta

This event looks to be even worse than the previous gifting event. This is going to push a ton of players away from the game.
What is your reasoning? This looks like the best one yet by a long shot. Better rewards all-around and the nomination alliance thing is a really clever and fun idea.
Multiple reasons.

1. I have always defended Kabam and leaning towards spenders win. I get that it’s a business and they have to make money. This is too much. Anyone that looks at these rewards and feel excited need serious help. Unless you drop $10k plus, you’re not getting the top rewards. I hope you all realize this.
2. Battlegrounds is the best game mode right now. I spend a little, sure, but I still feel that I have a fighting chance to get into the top 100 or so. These rewards are going to make it nearly impossible for those of us that are still growing our rosters in hopes of competing without spending an INSANE amount of money. These rewards take all the chance of the majority of players being able to compete. If it was still skill matters like it does now, fine. The next 3 seasons of battlegrounds will be dominated by the spenders until everyone else can start to catch up a bit. But by then it won’t matter much because a lot of players will just quit.
3. This event does seem fun if you are realistic. Even so, the rewards themselves from the crystals aren’t game breaking. My issue lies with the ranked rewards. The top 30 spenders get 13 nexus crystals, 5 awakening gems, 3 max sig 6*, 6 5*+ relics and 7 r4+ champs. That’s not even counting th me crystal or alliance rewards. How does this balance the game in any way, shape or form?

Call me a whiner or whatever, but I love battlegrounds and this event ruins the next chunk of seasons, unless you plan to spend an insane amount. I could go on, but what is the point.

You need to improve at your maths fam

Zolobacsi

So how is this going to stop fraud, stealing card details, etc.? All what was claimed against gifting event?